Database: NORDCAN (European Union)

Type of Database: registry

Primary purpose: To provide a freely accessible database of comparable cancer statistics for the Nordic countries.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Association of the Nordic Cancer Registries (ANCR).

Type of information: Number of new cancer cases (incidence); Cancer mortality; Number of individuals living with a cancer diagnosis (prevalence); cancer survival; age; Country; year; sex. Click here to learn more.

Source of Information: The sources vary from each national cancer registry and cause of death registry.

Data level: national level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 1943 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: publicly available. Click here to access. You can visualize the data using factsheets, click here to access or interactive visualization tools click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.